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«One will not deny me, I trust, all the theory of oxidation and combustion, the analysis and decomposition of air by metals and combustible bodies, the theory of acidification, more precise knowledge on the nature of a great numbers of acids, notably»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
acidification, acids, combustible, combustion, decomposition, metals, notably, oxidation, precise, theory of
«Like an immense flock of chattering birds observing precise migratory habits, every Wednesday, just a few minutes before noon, they swoop down upon the midtown area.»
«Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
complexity, fullest, human activity, precise
«It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.»
«The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Absence,
Questioning
| Keywords:
inexorably, precise, The Job
«I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything»
«The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
constraint, constraints, encounters, precise, presided
«Pre-emptive action today may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future because -- and I have ordered this kind of action -- I don't care how precise your bombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocent people die.»